Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose of cleanliness, lukewarm water and soap should be used on the parts most exposed, as the face, neck and hands, morning and evening. Water should not be allowed to dry into the hair, as a disagreeable odor is sometimes produced in this way, and the action of the glands interfered with. A fine-toothed comb should be used with great caution, and no comb violently...
...Overseers act upon the Chapel petition to-night. A report of their action will be published in to-morrow's paper...
...action of Yale last Friday in refusing to concede anything to keep Dartmouth in the inter-collegiate base-ball league, seems hardly excusable. Harvard would have played one game in Hanover, while Princeton promised to play both championship games on neutral grounds, but both of these plans were defeated by Yale absolutely refusing to change the arrangement existing since '83, when Dartmouth entered the league. By this action a nine of skillful and gentlemanly players has been obliged to withdraw. Every Harvard man will feel regret that we have lost Dartmouth from among our annual visitors, and we personally express...
...action of Saturday's audience in hissing the award of one of the sparring bouts, unjust as it may have seemed, was a disgrace to our winter sports. It is to be hoped that Harvard men were not concerned in this ungentlemanly conduct...
...action which the instructor in Philosophy I has taken is worthy of the attention of many instructors of other courses. In this course a plan has been introduced by which there is no mid-year examination, two hour examinations being substituted in its place. The time of these examinations has been so arranged that they come at equal intervals before the mid-years and between the mid-years and finals. This affords sufficient opportunity for the proper preparation of the subject without a conflict with the arduous work of the mid-years or finals. The plan can hardly...